ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which material spaces create sensory experience and how these might be communicated, examines how different spaces create different orders of control. If the cycling subject is an assemblage of rider, machine and space, the previous two chapters have considered in turn machines and spaces. S. Pink’s work on sensory ethnography similarly suggests the need to shift towards a language of emplacement rather than embodiment to reflect more fully the “complex ecology of social, material, affective and sensory environmental processes in the place in which the performance is assembled”. Any practice of cycling assembles all of these elements, and the rider is inseparable from the technologies of machine and space. An immediate observation from riding riverside routes is the variety of paving, texture and space encountered by the rider in tracing a line alongside to a “natural” geographical feature.
